The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These people scare the hell out of most freaks. They laugh at Yoko Ono, but it's the whole cliché.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.