I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

People say I'm not much of a girl either, " Tiger Lily said.She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.

The primary factor is proportions.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.