I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.

I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.