Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

When you stop living for luxuries you understand the real meaning of life.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Jace wasn’t exactly prone to random fits of panic

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

I believe everyone should have the freedom to represent what they believe-in in their own way.

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.