I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.