I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

You do what you love, or you get arrested.