What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.
I’m like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.
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.