I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.