They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

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

You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.