When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

I have a woman inside my soul.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.