“Now hang me out to dry….you wrung me out too, too, too many times!”

  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That's why I'm a great friend...I tell you the things you never want to hear."

- Pierthierd 

"Big fish wear small diapers."

Pierthierd 

"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."

"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."

"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."

"Lavish promotional campaigns are meant to blind audiences to the uselessness of an artist. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?"

"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."

"You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that."

“I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn.”

“It's their security blanket, ... We feed them … fish, vitamins and medicine.”

“If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.”

"I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends."

"I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK."