There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the guy next door, you're a criminal, and you ought to be punished for that especially if you're in a position where your actions could affect large numbers of people. Being a doctor, a legislator, a judge, an airline pilot, where somebody's life depends on you.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.