A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.