“Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.”

There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.

If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!

It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.

The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.

In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.

We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.

If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I’d played golf I would have been skint.

It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.