I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Anybody that walks can sing.