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

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.

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

It's what you do every day that counts. Eating seven apples on Sunday won't keep the doctor away!

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.