Amores Perros" and "Once Were Warriors" had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I think that I'm just on such a mission with my career that you don't really get to stop and think about your jersey number too often.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.