I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

- Mick Farren

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

- Mick Farren

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundr…

- Mick Farren

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

- Mick Farren

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, h…

- Mick Farren

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

- Mick Farren

You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's o…

- Mick Farren

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

- Mick Farren

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

- Mick Farren