You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.