I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

[Matt] Lindland looks just like 'Woogie' from 'There's Something About Mary', how am I possibly supposed to take this guy seriously?

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.