Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.