I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

I am a tropical black man.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.