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.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.