I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.