I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.