A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itself.

Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.

Not to ask is not be denied.

You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.