Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the artist and to dwell upon biographical information can only make it singular, and I am really, really disgusted by that.

As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.