I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

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

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.