The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.