To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.

People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.