Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

I think you just look for the person you have the most fun with. And that's enough. You realize, "Wait, I can just keep having fun with her forever?" Yes, you can do that. That is the key.

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.