

“I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.”
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“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.”
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“Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.”
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”
― Lost Highway
― Lost Highway
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