Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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 realize that people need something to believe in.