If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.