They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

I believe in nature instead of God.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.