A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.