It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.