To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.

What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.