People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

I'm not a luddite. Science, computers, medicine, they're all great. But nature is context. That which we can't control. Its constant mortality and immortality is an answer to the terror of finite existence. It reassures the soul.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.