The most important thing in art is taste.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.