You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else..

I’ve been things and I've seen places..

But that which is useful is the better..

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it b….

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work..

It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't rem….

There is time in life for everything..

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much..

Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in a room with Matthew Ship….

What exists, is possible..

For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a m….

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it..

That which comes slow comes solid..

I love to perform live..

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech..

I like making movies..

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one..

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life..

My life was very Japanese..

It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty..