"I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage."

"Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest."

"Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children."

"Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice."

"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."

"Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows."

"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all."

"I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds."