You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

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.

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Nothing left to do but smile.

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.