A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper..

Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could r….

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book..

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff..

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer..

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a w….

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art..

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes..

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses..

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the….

New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there wasn't anything compar….

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write..

Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one..

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true..

When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized th….