All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.