If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

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 got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.