In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

My hole is warm and full of light.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.

I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.