Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Books are sacred wisdom.

The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

God didn't tell us to suspend our minds he rather challenged us to come and reason, to use our reasoning faculties.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

...we should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."