I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.

If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created in your head?

I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.