I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like, "Hey, the world is much bigger than you imagined as a little kid."

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.