You are bound to pick up influences.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.