Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

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.

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.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about