Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: December 30, 1946
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg..
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work..
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords..
We're a culture more than ever that wants proof of everything, we want things fast, and someone sends you an email, you want to answer in five minute….
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..
I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it ….
There's nothing cool about being self-destructive..
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon….
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calli….
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had ….
New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music indus….
I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realis….
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else..
I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it..
I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship..
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester..
The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life..
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with..
I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with..
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd l….
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me..