The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.