What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

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

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

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.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.