I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.