We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

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

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.