Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.