Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: December 30, 1946
Got to lose control before you take control..
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and….
Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your respon….
Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book,….
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an ….
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets..
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind..
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games..
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs ….
If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!.
We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another..
All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars..
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs..
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings..
We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink..
You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life..
I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I ….
People have the power to redeem the work of fools..
I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know,….
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is ….
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book..