I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!