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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.
Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.
People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.
I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.
Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.
My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.
We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.
What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.
I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.
I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.
If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)
I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.
A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.
If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.
I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.