There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

No, I am who I am. Im not going to change for anybody.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.