Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form.

We created god in our own image and likeness!

It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.