I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

I worked for Hillary [Clinton] when I was young - when she was running for the Senate. I was fundraising and things, I see all of these people as political in a way that isn't humanistic. I'm just watching and hoping that someone is going to distinguish himself or herself as comprehending what we need.

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.