Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Law is always better than war.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.