If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

In Syria, for some time, they have been trading hostages for a number of things: for weapons, for money, for political influence, and for favors.

Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.