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A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn’t accept money from strangers.

There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

The principle of order in me, around me, and in the world… I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: “I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.

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

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.

If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don’t try to get too big.