But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.