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.

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.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

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

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

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

I believe in people treating each other with respect.