No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

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.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

I hated the soup and felt little for the can.

If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.