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.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

You can't always trust your mother.

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.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.