Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.
And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
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 don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.
You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.