You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

Mowing your lawn is against nature.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.