Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

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

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

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

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.

I think all good art is outsider art.

With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.