I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.