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

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.