"When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'"

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

"Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically."

"Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time."

"We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!"

"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."

"I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it."

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."