People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records. Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem. Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time. And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing. In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter. Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert. Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out. If I get married, I want to be very married. An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation. If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better. If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof. I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from. Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me. Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler. I think people are universal. I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since. Grief, and an estate, is joy understood. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point? In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold. One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.