When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

I like to write a lot of satire.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.