Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Zits are beauty marks.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.