I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.