A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder of your testimony of survival.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

Sanity is not statistical.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!