"Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love."

“If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.”

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“It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.”

“I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.”

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“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”

“Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.”

“Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.”

“Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an ***** and a predator.”

“The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.”