"It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things."

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

“Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.”

Source : Song: Nights In White Satin, 2014

“It often comes down to the people that you get to work with, and to match or enhance their creation. I tend to fall in love with whatever project we are involved in at the moment.”

“The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.”

Source : Rolling Stone, New York, February 8, 1990.

“It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.”

Source : Song: How Could an Angel Break My Heart, Album: Secrets, 1996

“The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.”

“You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."”