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.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

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.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.