“I’ve have one record left that I owe a major label, then I will never be seen in a situation like this again. If I could do what I want right now, I would put out my next album, you could download it from my site at as high a bit-rate as you want, pay $4 through PayPal. Come see the show and buy a T-shirt if you like it. I would put out a nicely packaged merchandise piece, if you want to own a physical thing. And it would come out the day that it’s done in the studio, not this “Let’s wait three months” bulls—-.”
“I became burdened in childhood with useless baggage that I now want off my back. I want to uneducate myself of these worthless concepts, so that I may return to a virginal personality—to a rebirth of real intent and real self. Then I won’t be lost in a collective whole that fits nobody because it’s made to fit everybody. Wherever I go, I see young people moving in groups, like schools of fish. When I was young, we all moved in separate directions. Are we developing a society like ants, in blocs and colonies? This is one of the things I fear more than anything else. I loathe collectivity. Man’s greatness and nobility consist in standing free of the mass. How he extricates himself from it is his own personal problem and private struggle. This is what my films describe.”
“What you truly want is what you will get, provided you have enough faith and make enough effort. So make sure you want something worth wanting.”
“But your big lesson for 2007 is to Face The Music. As soon as you forget The Wonderfully Impossible Dream and instead start to work towards The Achievable Wonderful Dream, that’s when life improves.”
“So, how does this all relate to the internet? The internet is fickle. Everything is disposable. Everything is fleeting. The internet is a very dark place to be. Everybody’s a fucking authority and everybody knows better than everybody else.”
“If I was going to make the world a better place, I’d do it with cookies.”
“The rules of the waiting game are easy to learn, but a little harder to put into practice: One, bide your time and don’t push things. Two, don’t obsess over what you can’t control. Three, repeat one and two.”