I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

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

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

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.

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

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