Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

Nothing belonged to her. She had no home. With no home and no place and now freedom coming to her, she felt an unusual surge of courage.

Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

It is important to find worth in yourself.

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.