Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

The Planet drifts to random insect doom.

I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.

What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.