It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.