I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

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.

You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Paths that cross will cross again

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

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.