I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

She's my girl now and I'll do anything for her at any time. I'm in love with her.

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

I'm an accidental writer.