“i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.”

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.

Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

If nothing else, I have money.

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,

I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.

I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.

I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.

People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

I shave my head & shape my beard myself

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don’t.

TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.