The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.