I’m a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt, I had the best.
I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it’s like I’m the one in the dress who has to provide it.
You gotta be able to change worlds.
I don’t watch reality TV much, but sometimes I’ll be on the E! channel and see that show “Total Divas”, about female wrestlers. It’s like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.
Own what you are, and I mean whether that’s art, or whether that’s fashion, or whether that’s music, or whether that’s acting, or whether that’s politics, or whether that’s literature; it’s own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.
To find your female scream and not withhold is so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.
Cocaine is like really evil coffee.
The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I’m not going to die.
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
It’s a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don’t have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
It’s very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn’t like my parents were irresponsible. They weren’t necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.
Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They’re kept happy and nutritionally together.
I cannot exist as a solo artist.
I’m offended every time I see George Bush on TV!
In rock ‘n’ roll it’s really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it’s about pausing, about internal life, it’s about internal triggers – that’s one of the reasons I’m really challenged to do a play.
In rock stardom there’s an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.