If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

Records don't have to be perfect.

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

Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.

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.