One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.

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.

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.