A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.
Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.
Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.
I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.
I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.
With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.
There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine. . . This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.
Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.
The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.