Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.