I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.