The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall - it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.

There is nothing like another's perspective to remind you that your way is not the right way

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

She laughed. My favorite music.

Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?.

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Going to the mountains is going home.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.