“Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff....” — Fantastic Negrito Quote

Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we can have, especially being an artist, is that we can create music that can build bridges and smash down very bad ideas.

I like going out and looking at people, and they inspire me so much.

I came up with the album name 'Please Don't Be Dead' because I felt like we'd lost our way as a society - and I know what happens when you chase the wrong things. It's the story of my life.

I think things happen, and we have no control over them, and what you take from them is really what is important.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.