Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.