Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

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.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.