I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for "Mercy Is ..." we all got in one mind because the song is delicate; it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso.

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.

Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

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

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.