America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.