The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

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

Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.