And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

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.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

All human belief systems are inherently flawed.