Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads.

I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician."

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.