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

All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.