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

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?

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.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

Wolves travel in packs, but the fiercest travel alone.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

I don't want there to be millions of people that are permanently barred from every becoming Americans.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.