I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

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.

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.

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.

Most people under the influence of the wrong and common belief which says that the sense of man’s life is to grow a tree, build a house and bring up a son

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.

I mostly just listen to my body.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.

There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus.