"The idea that we’re somehow centrally important to the planet’s existence is pretty comical — although I’d like us to be. I’d like to think that the yes of some heavenly body are watching us and saying, ‘Oh, look at my beautiful children.’ But it’s absurd. It’s just our attempt to be more important than a tree.
I use the word "God" in my songs all the time, because I don’t know what the hell is going on. So that’s God — everything I don’t know. But the idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we’re doing or takes sides when we have fights — it’s more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master."
