People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

I find it painful when I'm without anything. But I work in multiple fields. If I can't write, I find myself taking photographs. I can go on the road and perform. But the most important thing for me is writing, and when I hit those walls, it's painful.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.