I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

The [Bible’s] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.

Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.