"Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one."

“Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life”

“Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.”

“Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.”

Source : Interview with Gavin Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

“I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.”

“People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.”

“Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.”

“Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.”

Source : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

“Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”