It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.