You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.