Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.