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

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

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

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

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

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