People quickly forget that people are people.

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

I make the music that I make because that's what naturally comes to me.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

Strip malls are history.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.