And the seasons they go ’round and ’round And the painted ponies go up and down We’re captive on the carousel of time We can’t return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.
Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.
I’m drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can’t numb you out.
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi’s mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.
You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.
Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
The times you impress me the most are the times when you don’t try.
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all important.
I don’t know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don’t think I could.
When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary.
I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.
I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. People do recognize you. They are kind of shocked. Some people like it. It makes them feel at ease. It confirms their hopes that you are in fact similar to them.