When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.