None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself.