I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

Dream big, but do not fall asleep.

It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

No one has developed active tuberculosis.