I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

A hostage?""They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

And thus love makes fools of us all.

There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.