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

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

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.

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