I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.