Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually sp….

I think that so much of the creative process is a fragmentary one, and then it's about just allowing your intuition to put it together for you. It's ….

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football..

We consider the animals to be lower, and to me, that makes no sense at all. If you look at a tree or a mushroom or a squirrel, it's perfectly in tune….

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life..

You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're just yourself, and ….

The music is supposed to be healing..

We can see an anthill or a roach or a flower or anything, but we have this frame where our mind recognizes an anthill and then moves on, without taki….

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and….

When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in a lot of pain... I saw their pain from a different pe….

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something ….

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At….

Typically there are little fragments of specific words and images swimming around in my mind, and then at some point, I'll sit down with the guitar a….

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destruc….

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of differ….

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beaut….

I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see….

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people..

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down an….

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through..

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical..