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"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."

"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."

"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."

"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."

"Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle."
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"I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head."

"But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear."

"I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects."

"I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit."
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