A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

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

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.'

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.