If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.