I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.

I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.