Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
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.
Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.