I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving..

Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - ….

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor..

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are..

Steven [Sebring] was documenting me as a widow with two children, going from 50 to 60 years old. My focus, during that time, was to rediscover myself….

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink..

What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best no….

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….

Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time..

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he a….

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people..

I wish I could just project everything on the paper..

Punk rock is just another word for freedom..

Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are someti….

I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that..

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe).

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms..

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them..

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for t….

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now..

Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He w….