If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.