Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.