Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Gun registration is not enough.

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.