I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.