When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.