I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

What differentiates brother most from brother and beast is neither purpose, perspective nor prowess. It is simply intent.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.