Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.