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

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger in my ass during sex." Or whatever it is. You're not going to come out in typical everyday conversation and say that. That's something that's going to be only for a select few.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.