I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

I was born in New York.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Be you never so high the law is above you.

I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay.

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

Where there is peace, God is.

Dedicate one's life to truth.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.