Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star?

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Valium would have helped that bash.

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.