You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.