We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun-you see how nature is indifferent to it all.

That's the problem with a lot of things these days. Everything is too full now; we are spoon-fed everything. All songs are about one thing and one thing specifically, there is no shading, no nuance, no mystery. Perhaps this is why music is not a place where people put their dreams at the moment; dreams suffocate in these airless environs.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.