When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

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

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

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

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.