I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

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

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

I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.