I think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".

When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.

I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.

I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.

Forgiving unforgivable things is real forgiveness.Loving unlovable things is real love.Seeing someone’s inner most monster and choosing to stay is true loyalty. (It’s not something everyone can do)

When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.

When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.