I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we are interested in improving rather than proving.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.

Great

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your last lifetime.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.