My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'

I don't necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!

It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is …

One of the other reasons that we quit having journalists come here is because they would kind of hang out for several days, and they'd see me around at the clu…

'Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.'

There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.

'Who are you supposed to be, dear? Are you Daddy or the Mad Hatter?'