If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."

I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, "Ah, you know, it's Wednesday." But I'm blessed. I love my work.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.