When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.