If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

The best decisions you can ever make are the decisions that will guide you to enhance your gifts in order to create a better life for you and others.

Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.

Every choice has its consequences. Some more than others

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver.

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.