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.

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

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

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

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

The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.

I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pisses me off because I hate it when they're just jerking my chain and it's just like completely manipulative.