I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.