There’s nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it’s their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they’re giving you.
I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
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.
I’ve become a guy who’s like a complaining, whining neurotic.
Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.
And the world so hard to understand is the world you can’t live without.
I put up with the music business because I understand that I’m in the tradition, I’m in a tradition that’s of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I’m not really in that business.
Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
Well, I’m known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You’re not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
I mean, I’m certainly not a ‘teaophyte,’ or whatever the word would be.
I’m passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
I like my home and I like the nature.
If practice makes perfect, and no one’s perfect, then why practice?
Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.
I want people to see me happy.
Soon you won’t even have the choice to live or die as you wish!
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
I work differently than most people.
All I can go on is my own value system.