To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.