I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

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.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.