I didn't know Johnny Depp could act until he played me.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.