There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I believe in people treating each other with respect.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.