I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?