I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

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