I'm drawn between the light and dark.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

[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.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.