I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.