Jean Genet

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.