"Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it."

“An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.”

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

“I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.”

Source : Richard Savage, Thomas Park (1807). “The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.129

“I've had a tremendous career and I get more phone calls from people who've been on 'X Factor' asking how they get on the ships. The ships are a very lucrative job for any singer and I would advise any singer to go and work on them and try it for a while. If you are not good enough, you will not get on.”

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“I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.”

“In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.”

“I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.”