Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

The heart says what only the heart knows.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.