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.

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.

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.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you, and keep away from people who bring you down.

Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.