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.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.