Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.

You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.