People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

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.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

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.