I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the….

My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of ….

Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wron….

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an indi….

There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much mo….

I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring..

When I live, I'll give it all I've got..

I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for ple….

My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite u….

Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect..

I’ve never known a man who loved me..

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grie….

All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start..

I still describe myself as a Christian, and my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations in my life and the pra….

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain a….

I like residing in abstraction..

The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get infor….

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives ….

Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels of bastardization of rel….

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experi….

I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You….