I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

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

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.