Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

No one knows how powerful technology is.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

Paths that cross will cross again

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.