I realize that people need something to believe in.
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.
I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.