My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.

... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.