My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

Some people are incapable of judging others. Why? Because they are to busy judging their own insecurities

I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

The time is always right to do right

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

I was a bit of a rebel.