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

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.