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

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.

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

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.

Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

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

[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.