Sex sells everything and sex kills.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

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.