Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

Your imagination is a very important thing because nobody can take that away from you. No one can look in your head and read your thoughts.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

It's easy to clean up when you got money.

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.

Romance is the poetry of literature.