We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.