My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

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 can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

I've been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there.