When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.