I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...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...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there wasn't anything comparable. Very few got their picture in a magazine, fewer made records. We have to stand back and let them get their footing. Hopefully they'll come to the realization that the most important thing is their work and how they conduct themselves.