There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Death is a very important part of life.

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

I'm not in charge of my life.

If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on