For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.