Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.
I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.
Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
I hate the sound of my own voice. It's just up there, sort of naked and exposed. Live is hard, because on my records, I play almost everything on a lot of stuff. In a live situation, I can't control everything. I use two different microphones. One is just clean, traditional sound, and the other one is basically a cheap cassette-recorder microphone that goes through a distortion box to emulate my voice on the record. That helps some.
I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.
I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.
I have been approached to direct films, but I think everybody has their limits. For me, I want to focus all my energy and efforts on acting and give the best performance possible. For now, I am focusing on that. Who knows, in the future maybe I will change my mind.
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.