“For me Henry Corbin, the way that he writes about certain esoteric matters, is in a phenomenological way that refuses a New Age lens. But at the same time he’s very much responsible for a lot of New Age thought, because he was a very syncretic thinker.”

Probably the art, in that a lot of the people who I want to collaborate with can do something that I can’t do.

Like with New Bums and Donovan Quinn, he is seriously one of the greatest songwriters in terms of words that is alive right now. So I really wanted to play with him to experience that, to play music with these really great words.

We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.

You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.

Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.