“Oh, you don't wanna mess with the R-I-double-A
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma, or a seven-year-old girl
They'll treat you like the evil, hard-bitten, criminal scum you are”

Rolling Stone interview (2005)
Context: So now — cut to 1980. Irish rock group, who've been through the fire of a certain kind of revival, a Christian-type revival, go to America. Turn on the TV the night you arrive, and there's all these people talking from the Scriptures. But they're quite obviously raving lunatics.
Suddenly you go, what's this? And you change the channel. There's another one. You change the channel, and there's another secondhand-car salesman. You think, oh, my God. But their words sound so similar... to the words out of our mouths.
So what happens? You learn to shut up. You say, whoa, what's this going on? You go oddly still and quiet. If you talk like this around here, people will think you're one of those. And you realize that these are the traders — as in t-r-a-d-e-r-s — in the temple.

Maia to Simon, pg. 50
Variant: A werewolf. Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Source: Along for the Ride

Source: School's Out—Forever

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, (1978)

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)

Song lyrics, Children of the Sun (1969)

G.U.Y., written by Lady Gaga and Anton Zaslavski
Song lyrics, Artpop (2013)