Blessedness is within us all.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

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

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.