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 don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.