I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.