[After being asked about why he writes about death so much.] 'It's more about awareness, you know? Because without death, life would be meaningless, don't you think?'

'The Bible and several other self-help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That …

[MTV] won't play A Tout Le Monde because we made a video for that and they're saying that if people see it, that they'll kill themselves. And I'm thinking to m…

'Man, we're in Hollywood, there at least 200 cigarette shops around the corner'.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Maybe when you die, you come before a big, bearded man on a big throne, and you say, 'Is this heaven?' And he says, 'Heaven? You just came from there.'

Most people would die sooner than think - in fact they do so.