I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.