Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

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

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.