Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minutes. We have to allow ourselves nothingness, in our relationships too.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm; you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally; it's great to look at - it's a package deal.

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.