[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us, ” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising pigs.

My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs.

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

I further promise you, that all my wealth and property will be in Pakistan. I will take ownership of this country and won't be like those leaders who create hideouts abroad

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.