When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By ….

How strange it is to be anything at all..

I realized that even though I believe with my whole heart in the power of music... it didn't provide any solid answers on how to heal myself and heal….

I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big... the issues seemed too large….

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

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….

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….

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical..

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

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

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

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….

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 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….

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

The music is supposed to be healing..