I think all good art is outsider art.

Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

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.

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

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.

[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.

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