I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time..

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything..

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry..

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people..

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph..

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it..

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste..

As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind ….

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs..

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels..

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand..

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust..

If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special..

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love..

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful..

Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way..

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg..

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords..

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive..

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship..