I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Choose your mutations carefully...

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Only be rebellious for good reasons.

I think I know the delights of freedom

People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

Never yawn in front of a lady.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

I want winners. I want people that want to win.

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.