Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Toilet paper unrolled and slitheredthen wrapped around my tummy.That paper tried to roll me upinto an Egyptian mummy.

Better to wear out than to rust out.

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

Oh, goodie. Let the bloodbath commence. (Zarek)

Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes