I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much..

I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing….

The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensa….

I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly ….

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and ….

My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head,….

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are har….

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or au….

For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle ….

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em..

Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs w….

I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my st….