At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you were an apostate. Then I was a dance music enthusiast, and if you weren't a dance music enthusiast, you were an apostate. I was carnivore, and if you were a vegan, I didn't want to talk to you. Then I was vegan, and if you were a carnivore I didn't want to talk to you.