I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing

The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.