Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.