What's really fun is to write under different names.
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.
I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.
The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.
