I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

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