A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.

They taught me different was wrong.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.