I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

People quickly forget that people are people.

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

I make the music that I make because that's what naturally comes to me.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It’s all greedy yearning.

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.

Wherever there are birds, there is hope.

It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.