The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

I think all good art is outsider art.

Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.