You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

Valium would have helped that bash.

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.

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

Research, research, research. It means everything.