Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.