"I drink way less than people think I do." —It's too late, Craig Finn — you can't put the drinking-is-cool genie back in the bottle! [Guardian]

"Who doesn't want to see gaping vaginal orifices, if they could? It's my movie, I'm doing what I like. I'm not ashamed. I know it's disturbing, but I wouldn't think it's pornographic." —Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips on his new movie, Christmas on Mars [EW]

"Now just making good music, or great music, isn't enough. Now I have to sell T-shirts, or I have to choose which whorish association is the least stinky." —Trent Reznor [NYT]

"I think part of the benefit of being in a nerdy, bookish, indie rock band is that you blend into a crowd pretty easily." —Ben Gibbard [Gothamist]

"You know that thing you do when you're in school? And you're in your mid-30s and you go, 'I'm sick of feeling this way.' And you kind of like have this urge to take all your clothes off and run outside and say, 'Make fun of me. Are we done? Is that it?'" —What are you talking about, M. Night Shyamalan? [LAT]