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

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)