After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

Records don't have to be perfect.