Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.