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

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

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

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

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.

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