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.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

The reality is, sometimes, you lose. And you're never too good to lose. And you're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Reality has too many heads.

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.