I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.