I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

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

I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.