If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

I had a dream about you last night. The best day of my life was when I taught you how to juggle, but the best day of yours was when you taught someone else.

People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than others.

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

I want to do something with my life; I want to be a cyborg.

DS not only changes Nintendo, it changes our industry.

I am much more interested in the process than results.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.