You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

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.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.

One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.