Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

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

Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not career, money, drugs, sex, alcohol or fun. Not that there's anything wrong with any of those things, but they aren't in the film [Dream of Life], because that wasn't my life at the time.

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.