You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.