i will go walking no place at all and find some place to dance

"Beside reading and watching movies, finding out of the way places where misfits go. What I really like is night prowling. Sometimes around two in the morning, I will go walking no place at all and find some place to dance. I really like to just sit and watch people. I like to sit some place like the Jojo restaurant, on St. Marks Place, and watch people all night. That's a good question. I must lead a really boring life."

"Eating, sleeping, and time to yourself are like gold. Oh, and health."

interview with kylie buddin for You Could Do Worse Zine, #3.

it never was material things

"You know how little moments stand out? I remember coming across a parking lot in Pennsylvania and everybody had a couple of groupies on each arm, you know? And as I was walking by I looked in the car and there was Duane sitting there reading a book. I always thought of him as being on a higher spiritual plane than the rest of us. He was really trying to accomplish a lot, and it never was material things. It was musical things."

Allman Brothers Band roadie Kim Payne on Duane Allman

you discover that you are not living

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”

Anaïs Nin

I'm just soaking it all in -jim morrison

 Um... I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language  "I DON'T KNOW" ...It's terribly embarrassing.

They hate us because we're so good...

I'm not what you'd call a music buff.
Do you read a lot?
Nope, I don't read very much either. I used to ... and then I ... Life got so interesting that I didn't need to anymore.

Mmm, Do you write a lot?
Nope. I don't. I don't do much of anything, really. But I will, don't worry. I'll get back... in the saddle, you know. I've just been kind of lazy lately. It's a period, it's cycles of non-productiveness and then intense periods of creativity. So right now I'm just soaking it all in.

What place do albums have as art forms to you?
I believe they've replaced books. Really. Books and movies. They're better than movies, 'cause a movie you see once or twice, then later on television maybe. But a fucking album man, it's more influential than any art form going. Everybody digs them. They've got about 40 of them in their houses and some of them you listen to 50 times, like the Stones' albums or Dylan's.

You don't listen to the Beatles much anymore, but there are certain albums that just go on and on. You measure your progress mentally by your records, like when you were really young what you had then, Harry Belafonte, you know, Calypso, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley.

The mentality of the writer is like the 'psychology' of the voyeur. Journalists never seem to speak about themselves like other people do. They absorb like a sponge and never really discuss their own psyche. I think that. . .like. . .I think art, which is like beauty, is the revelation of beauty, beauty is an absolute, you dig? And I think it's rooted in a disinterested perception of the real world. Striking an evenness, a balance between object and receiver, like revealing the world with no connotation at all. None, no bullshit.

He who laughs last, laughs his ass off.

I like chicks in Levis. My taste is like whoever approaches me, I think it's groovy

Maybe collectively. . .a crowd together really has no mind. Individually everybody does. They all have bitchin' minds. Like, I bet there's more philosophy in some 16 year old chick's mind than you ever dreamed of in your whole cigarette. Some of those letters to those fan magazines are really lonely and deep and open. Some of them are bullshit. I don't read many, but some that I've read really knocked me out. Really open, sincere. Anyway, you got to learn to hold your tongue. Can you remember that?

If I had it to do over again, I think I would have... gone more for the quiet

undemonstrative little artist plodding away in his own garden trip.

 Anybody can talk, but how many cats can play music and sing?

quotes from the interviews with circus magazine, the village voice, and the los angeles free press