The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...