I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.