I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

I believe in nature instead of God.

The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.

Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.

You are young, and in love, " said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.

Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.