“I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.”

But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.

There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.

There’s a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.

So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.

Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.

It’s cool but also a little creepy.

There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.

I wanted “Champion” to accompany that whole growth situation, ’cause I feel like, if you go overtime, you will become a champion.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

I’m not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect.

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]

That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.