I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Add in the good stuff - eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff.

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

I don't mind being criticized intelligently; although I don't love it.

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

Kayla Robinson, if you don't shut up I'll fly down there and suck every last bit of blood from your stupid cheating cow body!

Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner!

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry