When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation.

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music.

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.