My own perception was that although it kind of sucks to be stuck in a contract you signed a long time ago, when you're having success, it gives you some leverage.

Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

I can’t shake you.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

Misery will never be your destiny. Your mind deserves joy in abundance, but it's your responsibility to constantly feed the right words and beliefs to it.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.