I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.