Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

I don't have an iPod.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

I really have fun doing music for visuals and stuff.

I feel really different from other musicians.

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everything, you become nothing. -RVM

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

The intelligence of the universe is social.