It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

We don't make music, it makes us

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.