I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.