I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

I always write well in New York.

For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.