The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

What is once well done is done forever.

I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

And then the world exploded.