It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.