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.

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.

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.

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.

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

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.

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