I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind..

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive..

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was ove….

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man..

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed ….

I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from rea….

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication..

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension..

Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted a….

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right….

I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy. I move like ….

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of s….

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….

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been ….

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything..

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing..

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games..

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar..

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie..

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic..