I'll take a page out of Michael Stipe's book and say, 'It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." We just have to do better.

There’s no barrier between the reader and you.

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Be concerned about doing good work.

Protect your work, and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

We’re living in a time that never existed before. This is the era where everybody creates.

Creative energy is one thing, having a great imagination is another thing, and the third thing is manual labor. Art is work.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people, you just keep doing your work—because you have to, it’s your calling.

If you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

To be an artist—actually, to be a human being in these times—it’s all difficult. What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Who beyond the performer is the most hungry for poetry in any form but the children the new masses and Lou KNEW it youtu.be/j0tFQ079Wd0

In mourning after the death of Lou Reed, one of the most important friends in my life. We'd better say so long, bye, bye, bye.

Life is like a roller coaster. Its never going to be perfect—it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but its all worth it

I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

Performing is pain is pure ecstatic cut with adrenaline paranoia and any white light one can shoot on stage.

We are the true children of Frankenstein we were raised on electricity.

Writing is what has sustained me.

The dead speak but we as a people have forgotten how to listen. We hold them in our hands, they course thru our blood.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us...