Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.