“When people feel that they are empowered… then they can do whatever they want to do. It’s their country to change.”

“I do feel that I have to do whatever I can to make sure that people are informed and understand exactly what's going on with this man.”

“The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.”

“When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.”

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.”

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

“And what do I want people to get from the music? Whatever they want. Whatever you like. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.”

“You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”