The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.

Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.