If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

I don't believe in an interventionist God

Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.