"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate."

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

"No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart."

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens."

"My trade and art is to live."

"Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song."

"I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things."