I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.

I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.