I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.