If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

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.

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.

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