My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn’t very good, but my pronunciation isn’t terrible.
Somehow, magically, I’ve become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human is that you want to help everybody.
The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
You make mistakes and you learn from them.
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
Some of the songs I’ve made, I’m really disappointed in how I mixed them.
No one drives in Manhattan – in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don’t even have driving licenses!
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
When I say, ‘I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,’ I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I’m not saying I’m right.
When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.
I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.
It’s better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.
I don’t know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.
The reason I didn’t like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o’clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.
I’d just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.