"I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again."

“I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.”

“Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.”

“Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2004.

“I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and say, "You've inspired me to start writing music," or, "I feel like we could be best friends." Music is a male-dominated business, so it's nice to see bands with girls in them, and not just a bunch of dudes with beards in flannel shirts.”

“You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them”

“All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.”

“There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community”

“Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.”