It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don’t feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.