[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

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

New York exists for me. Not me for 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.

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

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