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.

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.

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

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'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

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.

Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.