"Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron."

“Having a mother who has had cancer and fought through it and at times used cannabis to you know fight off nausea and whatnot. I mean it's not really her thing, but there were times when she needed it and the idea that you can't have it because it's an illegal drug, but OxyContin is legal. That's you know that's just insane to a level that I think most people understand.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”

“What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?”

“As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The same God who brought you here is the same God that will take you there! Stop worrying about how and trust Him. He who promised is faithful!”

Source : FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Jan 22, 2013

“If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.”

“Politics and power is a realm of relative influence,”

“The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen.”

Source : "Strange Visitor: A Conversation With Aphex Twin" by Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. 2014.