“When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.”

“It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.”

“When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.”

“Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?”

“The last day i was home i took the rental car up old 14 behind the Sandia Mountains. as i drove north toward Santa Fe past Madrid I rolled the window down halfway and let the cold, brisk, February air come into the car. I smelled the pinon trees and the damp earth. The Gray came over me. My life flashed through my heart in one deep rush of feeling. When I made the turn around the mountain to the west, the mesas and valleys spread out before me under the orange and gold horizon. The sun hit me like a wave that flooded out the past and dissolved any idea of the future, and I felt okay and whole for about twenty minutes.”

“The next evolutionary step is into the screen.”

“There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.”