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.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'

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

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.