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

When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

I always wear the same thing onstage.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.