My style was too erratic and hard to pigeonhole for the radio, and songs, to me, were more important that just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

No artist tolerates reality.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.