Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.