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.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.