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,…

- Peter Blegvad

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

- Peter Blegvad

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 …

- Peter Blegvad

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…

- Peter Blegvad

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…

- Peter Blegvad

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…

- Peter Blegvad

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…

- Peter Blegvad

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 …

- Peter Blegvad

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

- Peter Blegvad