Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.