Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.