I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.