"Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music."

"When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier."

"My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat."

"Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional."

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

"A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, a fundamental transformation of human capability, proving that our greatest invention is intelligence itself."

"When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home."