Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

The beginning of it starts at the end

There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.