Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.