These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.