Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: December 30, 1946
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule..
I always wear the same thing onstage..
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….
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detecti….
I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was young….
He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe).
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..
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwri….
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..
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..
I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth a….
I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love..
Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again..
People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything..
I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit..
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne ….
I wish I could just project everything on the paper..
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969..
No one knows how powerful technology is..
The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy..
I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-….