I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.