For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her.

If it is to be It is up to me.

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

I write in the studio.

I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!