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"The point is, I´m weird, but I never felt weird."
"I may again know John." "Music is the face of God." "The best service you can do for mankind is mind your own biznis." |
"It's, it's like I'm in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that's what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music."
"I wouldn't let anything at all that I thought wasn't directly aimed at helping my creativity come out, I treat it as if it were a knife to my heart like ah... William Burrough always talks about the world is nothing but allies and enemies and it's important to, to understand what things around you are the enemies and a lot of the time your worst enemy is your, is your ego."
"The parts of me inside that feel constantly let down, or constantly in a state of failure, I'm in touch with them and I love them...it's not something I run away from."
"If there is anyone reading this who doesn't already play music or write stories, or write poetry or painted or draw or gamble or anything you should go to the art store, buy some water colors and paper and throw paint on the paper, and see what happens. Don't try to be good, just do it for fun and you will realize once again that you are alive and wide awake. Take advantage of it!"
"I wanted to play the way that people play who invent
something original and cool and colorful to do based on
the fact that they have the limitations technically,
because they developed their style as soon as they
learned how to play. I'm talking about people in new
wave and punk rock. I wanted every song to sound like
that but like a different person. Like every song to
have an approach like that but each song, not a song
that the next song would sound like the same person who
played, you know what I mean?"
| "...my whole object as a musician no matter who I'm playing with, is to get as far away from myself as possible. The further away from the situation I am, the better the music is... A lot of the time I feel like I'm just letting the air play me and the air makes the music and I'm just an outline within that... but that's the real me, what surrounds me... the air that surrounds me is the actual walking person and this bit of flesh in between is just a blob." (1994) | 
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"Death is a place I'm really looking forward to being in. I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream." (11/97)
"Everytime you put on a record or a CD, it's a dimension in time; it's a piece of time that's suddenly moved from one dimension to another. A moment in 1927, or a series of moments that accumulated into being one song in 1967, suddenly appears again in 1999 because I press a button. That's like dying and waking up in another world." (8/99)
"It's the best thing in the world to have nothing but your creativity to think about every day." (8/99)
"I used to always see things in the outside world as being 'the enemies of an artist.' I don't see it that way anymore. To me, everything an artist needs is inside of himself, and it really doesn't matter what's going on in the world. Nothing else matters. You don't need to have things perfect, you don't need to have a lot of money or a beautiful girl. If your job in life is to create, you can find inside yourself what you need to make beautiful art and beautiful music.
"But you might have to clean yourself out, spiritually or physically. You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close to you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go." (4/01)
