I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.