Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

I don't think I'm lucky; I think I have a tough constitution. That's a lot of it. And I've been wise enough to listen to other people. I was unconsciously cultivating as many straight friends as I could.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me

It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.