I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.