To try to please people is an endless chasing of one’s own tail. That’s not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It’s like an art as opposed to being a musician. It’s definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.
I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young – you don’t want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren’t there.
I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That’s the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don’t, and I can’t understand why most bands don’t want to do it.
Love is the thing that you pursue because it’s the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.
Your life, unfortunately – and I mean this – your life is built on when love dies. There’s a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don’t. And you go, oh, well, here I am.
I think I’m really lucky that the things I’m able to love – people, animals – it’s like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.
I think that’s what centers me the most – all my people, all my animals.
We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it’s all about sweat.
Some people, they don’t want to be that loved, they don’t want to be that involved, they don’t want to be part of your family. That’s where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn’t want that.
Maybe there’s some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can’t get an answer to.
Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we’re all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.
I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don’t know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.
I’m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.
Even though I don’t have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.
Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you’re sweating, you’re adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.
I would say anybody who’s willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.
Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they’re more introverted or shy, or just don’t want to make a decision so quickly.
I think that most of the people I’m dealing with, they’re a lot like me. So I’m not pushing people that don’t want to do something; most of the people have a billion things going on, and they love it.
Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.