I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.