I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you’re communicating with people, and you’re not in a void. On the other hand, because you’re always creating and transforming, art always separates you – always.
I never really wanted to be a singer – not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
New York is the thing that seduced me.
As far as I’m concerned, being any gender is a drag.
You can’t carve up the world. It’s not a pie.
We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.
Love is an angel disguised as lust.
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
I’m not afraid of terrorism at all. I’m afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.
My father hated rock and roll – hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.
Got to lose control before you take control.
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.
Life is like a roller coaster. It’s never going to be perfect – it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it’s all worth it.