I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.