She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.

She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.