Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

We are not completely autonomous.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?

As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.