My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.