Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: December 30, 1946
Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebo….
Words are just rules and regulations to me..
New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away ….
Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it….
You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe..
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life ….
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris..
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business..
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget….
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right….
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom..
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all..
I've always considered myself a writer..
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town..
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had..
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?.
You can't make a mistake when you improvise..
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words..
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves..
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter..
Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations.….