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

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

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.

I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.