Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
I don’t care how impossible it seems.
I’m just an advertisement for a version of myself.
There’s still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don’t. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn’t communicate anything.
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
There’s a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it’s their true feeling.
To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm’s length. They don’t want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that’s at least as relevant as what’s being done here.
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
As music becomes less of a thing – a cylinder, a cassette, a disc – and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
I found music to be the therapy of choice.
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself – clay to be available for future use.
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.