You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.

Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.