I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.