"God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again."

"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."

"The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world."

"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."

"Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool."

"There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music."

"Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ."

"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."