As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish.

I'm not a big fan of spiders and snakes and worms and stuff like that, but they don't really creep me out.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

I definitely had a gang influence with friends and family growing up in South Central, and people might think that Beverly Hills definitely shielded me from some problems. But in actuality, it only opened up a whole new can of worms.

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't be scared of them.

The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.