I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.
There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.
I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.
I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.
For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.
I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.
Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'
Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
