Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

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