"Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?"

"My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat."

"Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music."

"All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds."

"It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had."

"What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor."

"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn."

"When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny."