"Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught."

"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface."

"People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel."

"What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means."

"I intend to live forever, or die trying."

"I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then."

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."

"One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff."