Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?

I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

It feels great to do what you love.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.