I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

I still love when any editor today says, "it's so cool what you do", or "you inspired me". All these little things make you realize that people are reading your site and that you have an influence.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.