I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

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.

As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.

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

I love being alive. I like being a human being.