
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

May the Baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

I'm interested in playing, not working.

Step out of a triangle, into striped light!

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as ... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.