I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
A real prison breakfast" I said."Yeah, but we are free."And that summed it up.
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. I can't do this, I said. I don't know what to say.Say anything, he said. You can't make a mistake w...
I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that...
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps...
My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
You can't change the world you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
