My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Which is worse, hell or nothing?

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.