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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.