What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.