First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

An idea is a mental spark, a mindset is a mental inferno

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.