The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I'm not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock 'n' roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they're not alone.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.