I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.