If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

Don't need a gun to blow your mind

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.