I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.

No one knows how powerful technology is.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

New York is the thing that seduced me.

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.