I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"

Hoodies are definitely street wear, no doubt. It's amazing how hoodies have become such an important staple in people's wardrobes.

I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.

Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer’s lips.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.