Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.