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.

I believe in people treating each other with respect.

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

I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pisses me off because I hate it when they're just jerking my chain and it's just like completely manipulative.

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

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.