It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

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

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.