I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Just that sons and fathersAre like mirrors and daughters are soft

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

I think weather affects my mood a lot more than I thought, and I like to be in bad moods sometimes.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids.