The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.