In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.