The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks and I'm an upper.

I write the vocals last because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.