Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Choose your mutations carefully...

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

Everyone who is with you is not necessarily for you.

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.