The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.