You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was.

Listen, you listen to the work and you decide whether you want to support it. But don't ask me why I'm doing it, because I really do not know the answer.

Don't pull your love out on me baby.

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

Lets Rock Cancer's World

What sinks the devil sails the Christian.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.