When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

People in every direction No words exchanged No time to exchange And all the little ants are marching Red and black antennas waving They all do it the same We all do it the same way

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

There are moments when we have to return to our roots.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.