The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I love good, loud speakers.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.