I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

To bring the fans into the world of being like part of the crew through things like cell phone cases, making them feel like they are on tour with their favorite band is a cool thing.

It's not like you can start pounding drinks when you're wheeling your kids all over. They gave me something to shoot for, a goal to get back to.

If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

Dark Horse was my second time working with Todd Solondz. I love him truly, very much. And I don't think he'd ever worked with an actor a second time. It was groundbreaking.

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?