Ian Frazier

On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.