I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.

Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.