The most important thing in art is taste.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that

My God! My God! What will the country say?

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.