Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

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.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

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

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'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.