I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

Never attempt to take your own or somebody else's life because someday you will account for that.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

A man is either free or he is not.

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.