I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it.

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times and I have paid dearly.

Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

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