I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.