Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.