The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

The way we describe our world shows how we think of our world. How we think of our world governs how we interpret our world. How we interpret our world directs how we participate in the world. How we participate in the world shapes the world.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.