Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star..

I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I di….

Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not career, money, drugs, sex, ….

I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are mu….

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So w….

I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need..

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch..

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors..

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, li….

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a ….

New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me. New York is the thing that pe….

Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life..

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends..

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day..

Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had….

For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon bein….

We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please..

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I w….

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist..

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep..