I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

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.

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

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

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

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

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