I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.