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I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.
When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'
I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'
I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
