To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.