Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.