I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.