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

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

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

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.

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

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.