The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

[About Paz De La Huerta....] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.

Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

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