I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.

Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.