Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.