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.

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.

I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took up all my time. People wanted me to have a Twitter account and I spent the whole day figuring out what would be the first message. I still haven't wrapped my head around it.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.