People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.