"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."
- Patti Smith
"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in d..."
"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."
"It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was."
"All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms."
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."
"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one"
"Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all."
"I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future."
"Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragm..."