The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.