The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

A man is either free or he is not.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

An evil word it is/ This Love.