Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

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.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.