I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.