The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it.

If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.

My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.