I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.