I don't want to sound like everybody else.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

You're kind of... distracting.Am I?Yes. In the best way.

Rain is appealing. I can just stand out there letting the rain beat upon my back.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

People don't change. People are who they are.

The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?