“It was fun to be clever.”

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Never bored, so I’ll never get old.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language.

There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.

You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

It’s only forever, Not long at all.

I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race

In my madness I see your face in mine.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

It’s harder to be kind than clever.

I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.