What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

I never took reds or Quaaludes to balance out the coke. So when it got to be four in the morning and the gram was three quarters gone, I'd start wishing it was nine o'clock and hoping the guy got up early. But, of course, he didn't sleep either, so there was no sweat. During all those years, I was always looking forward to the next snort or the next guy I could score from.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke.

The rebellious mood of the country during those [60th] years allowed me to plug right back into my old hatreds. I could scream and holler, as I did on the albums, against religion, government, big business - all those assholes and their values. That hatred was very real.