When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.