All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
I wasn’t a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible – well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.
I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
I wasn’t thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
I’ve always thrived on the encouragement of others.
An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
I’m here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.
I wasn’t taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn’t writing anything.
Americans just don’t know what being a movie star’s all about.