I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

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.

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

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.

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

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.