As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

Let there be more darkness

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.