Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

I dream of a house full of books.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

Greatness is its own torment.