The Only Person I Really Believe In

I Thought I'd Live To A Ripe Old Age, Because I Always Felt There Was A Lot To Do. I Had A Driven Feeling. I Always Thought In The Present.

I Think That G-o-d Is Like The Answer To A Formula For Creat­ing Life. Or Some Kind Of Energy Or Anti­gravity. It's Like The Answer To An Equation And It's Become Mythical Over The Years. But At One Time We All Knew What It Was. I Don't Know When It Was Exactly, But That Was The Ancient Knowledge. It's Become Diffused As It Was Handed Down And Turned Into Myth.

There Are All These Different Areas Of Specialization. That's It. You Have To Be A Specialist Nowadays. There's No Other Way. I Was An Artist For A Long Time, But I Was Always Into Being A General Practitioner. I Did A Little Of This And A Little Of That. And Nothing Got Me Anywhere. You Have To Specialize. If You Don't Specialize, It Takes You Until You're About Fifty Years Old Before Anybody Notices That You're Doing Anything At All.

I Really, Really Like Writing Songs. Capote Wrote Every Day. He Said That's The Only Way, You Have To Sit Down Every Day And Do It...something That's Written Out Is Okay, But It's Not Always A Clear Indication Of What A Person Means.

In Music The Mystical Element Is Definitely There All The Time, And One Can See It. When It Comes To Rock And Roll, When It Comes To Any Kind Of Industry, It's Not There. It's Not There. So It's A Battle Between The Two. Music, Industry.