Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

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.

One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.