"Meat eating orchids forgive no one just yet Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath Broken hymen of your highness, I'm left black Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back."

"Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old."

"It's OK to eat fish 'Cos they don't have any feelings"

"I love myself better than you I know it's wrong, so what should I do?"

"With eyes so dilated I've become your pupil"

"Chew your meat for you pass it back and forth in a passionate kiss from my mouth to yours i like you"

"One baby to another says I'm lucky to have met you"

"Just because you're paranoid Don't mean they're not after you."

"She's just as bored as me she caught me off my guard it amazes me, the will of instinct"

"Polly wants a cracker Think I should get off her first Think she wants some water To put out the blow torch."

"I'm so happy 'Cause today I found my friends They're in my head. I'm so ugly, that's okay 'Cause so are you, Broke our mirrors."

"Come as you are, as you were As I want you to be As a trend, as a friend, as a known enemy Take your time, hurry up The choice is yours, don't be late."

"We can have some more nature is a whore bruises on the fruit tender age in bloom"

"He's the one Who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means."

"Sell the kids for food weather changes moods spring is here again reproductive glands"

"I found it hard, It was hard to find Oh well, whatever, never mind."

"I'm worst at what I do best"

"A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido."

"With the lights out, it's less dangerous Here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid, and contagious Here we are now, entertain us."

"Load up on guns, bring your friends."

"Thank you, dear God For putting me on this Earth I feel very privileged In debt for my thirst"

"Yes I eat cow I am not proud."

"She loves him more than he will ever know He loves her more than he will ever show"

"The lady whom I feel maternal love for Cannot look me in the eyes But I see hers and they are blue And they cock and twist and masturbate."

"I need an easy friend I do, with an ear to lend."

"I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well. [p. 124]"

"When I hear the term Right wing I think of Hitler and Satan and Civil war. [p. 259]"

"Birds...scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. [p. 224]"

"I mean it seems like there are only two options for songwriters [sic] personalities either theyre [sic] sad, tragic visionaries like morrissey or michael stipe or robert smith or theres [sic] the goofy, nutty white boy, Hey lets party and forget everything people like Van Halen or all that other Heavy metal crap. [p. 44]"

"Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly? [p. 190]"

"John Lennon has been my idol all my life but he's dead wrong about revolution... find a representative of gluttony or oppression and blow the motherfuckers [sic] head off. [p. 130]"

"I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own. [p. 95]"

"To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility. [p. 18]"

"Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song "Polly". I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience."

"At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records."

"I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack but the last to admit that it hasn't been rewarding."

"Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone. We just wanted to pay tribute to something that helped us to feel as though we had crawled out of the dung heap of conformity."

"I think they’ll use sounds and tones and music and use it in their virtual reality machines. And just listen to it that way and get the same emotions from it. And then go to a party. There’ll be a virtual reality machine there with a whole bunch of headphones and if you wanna talk to people and listen to the virtual reality machine you can do that and go into the other bedroom and fuck and drink and… but actually I think virtual reality machines will get you high. Technology will be that good. And then there’ll be like virtual reality junkies lying there dead on their couch from OD’ing."

"It’s sad to think what the state of rock and roll will be twenty years from now. It just seems like when rock and roll is dead the whole world’s gonna explode. It’s already so rehashed and so plagariazed that it’s barely alive now. It’s disgusting. I mean, kids don’t even really care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It’s already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. And at that point I really can’t see music being of any importance to a teenager, really."

"I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive."

"Music comes first; lyrics are secondary. Most of my lyrics are contradictions. I'll write a few sincere lines, and then I'll have to make fun of [them]. I don't like to make it too obvious, because if it is too obvious, it gets really stale. You shouldn't be in people's faces 100% all the time. We don't mean to be really cryptic or mysterious, but I just think that lyrics that are different and weird and spacey paint a nice picture. It's just the way I like art."