If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.