In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so..

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end..

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you..

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home..

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal..

I believe in people treating each other with respect..

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to ….

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it..

There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and….

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot..

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, ….

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of thing….

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas..

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now w….

Things always change, and New York teaches you that..

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more abou….

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books..

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later..

I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pis….

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intenti….

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways..