I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.