At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.