I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist..

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied..

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

‎A change of work is the best rest..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

I don't do live things..

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from hi….

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

It is poetry that changes everything..

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.