I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.