The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

Baby Steps are for Babies, Not Brands. Be Amazing or Be Surpassed.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

I could puke on myself and still be good looking.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.