You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

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

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.