We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.

Sometimes it felt like no one was ever there for her. Everyone thought she was so strong. And she was, for the most part. But that didn’t mean she never needed anyone to lean on.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.