I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Valium would have helped that bash.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.