"The best conversation I had after a show was about astronomy, which has inspired me to learn about the stars... Y'see we are capable of talking without it being overtly sexual or political."

"I want five kids, one of each."

"I'd just got into the Velvet Underground and was blown away by Maureen Tucker's drumming; she had her own style. -she branded an image in my head of me drumming very primitive Viking sounds to a wall of noise, giving it angels and shape... so we [huggy bear] started to do something [like that]."