My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.
I learned a woman is never an old woman.
I'm a night owl.
Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.
