Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

I am not strong on perfection.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.