Art is a way of survival.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.