I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination