"So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame."

"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas."

"I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing."

"There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior."

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."