My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free