What I want to do is enter the popular lexicon. Like Jimi Hendrix. That's my goal. Not to sell soap. Not to say, 'Look like me, dress like me, sound like me.' Not to get a supermodel girlfriend. None of that shit. I want people to come away from what I'm doing and look at it as a gift.

People talk about Eric Clapton. What has he ever done except throw his baby off a fuckin' ledge and write a song about it?

What am I drinking? The sweat off fucking baby Jesus' loins for all you know.

If you're so tired we can order an ice cream cake, we can have it delived to the stage.

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyrami…

She is of course well past the stage of having to prove herself artistically. She is in possession of one of the most extraordinary song catalogs of the past h…