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.

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.

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.

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.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

I believe in permanent revolution.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

I am very driven. I do believe in what I call "the G factor." I must be spirit led.

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.