I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

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

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.