We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.