I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.