Computer Age

- "... Then what I wanted was to be a hero Superman type or Captain Thunder."

- "The fact is that I arranged to travel to Nashville, but the way I passed through New York and came into contact with the movement that formed Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and others. I started to write my songs. "

- "I was at least ten years older than all those people. Rebel ¿? No, I always had the feeling that none of those cases was sufficiently radical. I seemed limited to established models, and I was fighting against any model. "

- "... Hippies might think that would be ridiculous for a generation? With self and what they were proud of having taken courageous steps to find and secure themselves within a company irremovably? With the risks, choices, who smoked marijuana, acid consuming? Are you planning any time you mofarían of them, like a cartoon? No. And so, with each generation. There is a saying: "He who marries the spirit of his generation will be a widower in the next". "

- "I think the man should defend their beliefs against all odds. Whatever the stance that he believes should be taken to do so. If you believe you must fight should do so and if you think you should hide as well. That is my political stance; pure matter of survival. "

- "There was a moment, specifically in the time I spent in Cuba, in which I stated that he was deeply concerned by the violence. Then, when I saw what it was, I decided that I wanted to avoid at all costs. "

- "Many people say that I do not know sing. And I have considered these views very seriously. There was a time when I reached the conclusion that he did not know sing, but who knew to do otherwise, or Call him sing as you want, but there is something in the voice that is true and that it is authentic. And so I continued. "

- "I had problems with a" The Partisan "in Madrid, it was assumed that he had to write it to a television studio. I arrived there, and I found that they had prepared a decorated and had hired four boys in miniskirt ... had to sing the song and I move between the decor ... I told the producer that I could not work under those conditions. He did not think it appropriate to take these girls .., on the other hand were beautiful, asking them apologize, but that he could not sing that way. The producer told me that "in this or sang decorated or not sing." I went and sang not. "

- "In our time, certain spiritual mechanisms that were useful were abandoned and forgotten. Redemption, repentance, resurrection. All these ideas were thrown by the toilet. People are suspicious of religion and redeeming all the mechanisms that are useful. "

-On the album "Death Of A Ladies' Man"
- "I can not withstand hear. I hate it. But there is something about this that I do not want to acknowledge. Perhaps it is good, but it is not something he understands. It was an experiment I do not know either as I came into this ... I mean ... you're in certain situations and when you want to give consideration not know how you have come to them. "
In an interview you did in "Rolling Stone" on your i Phil that "he did not want any shadow on its obscurity" ...
- "I have not seen since he left the disc. Not when I saw him were mixed. He took the tapes of each meeting at his house. I had the opportunity to seize the tapes and be able to legally remix all over again, but neither could do because it was his music anyway. I never should talk to Phil, was a mistake. "

- "My voice started to change toward'82. It has become deeper over the years and it seems that it will continue that path. I thought it was 50 per thousand cigarettes and several pools of whiskey. But I quit smoking some years ago and continues to deepen. "

- "" If It Be Your Will "is really a prayer. And "Hallelujah" has that feeling. Many others: "Dance Me to the End of Love", "Suzanne." I like the music of the churches, synagogues, mosques. "

It is hard to believe that discarding verses ...
- "The point is that I have to discard it before writing it. The verses ill take so long to write as good. As was once said, is so hard to write a bad novel as a good novel. I can not rule out a verse before writing it because the writing of the verse produces delights or interests or traits that caught the light. "

- "I think the songs are, first, for the funeral. To find your partner. For deep things. To avert the love, for healing broken nights, and to be central in the accompanying challenges of life. "

- "The songs always mean something to somebody. Seduces people, find their wives, have children, washes the dishes; people live from day to day, and the accompanying songs that we can find insignificant. But its significance is stated by them. There is always going to someone who affirms the importance of a song when making a woman in his arms, or to spend the night. That dignifies the songs. The songs have no dignity of human activity. The human dignity to the songs. "

- "The answer most notably may be the most universal."

- "When everything fails you, when you can not find a way out even in religion, love becomes a nail to cling on fire."

- "I just won life, educate my son, I try to do my job better and as clear as I can, trying not to hurt anyone. It's what I can do, I do not have a strategy or a plan to make things better .... "

- "I still hope things in life. But I hope the same way that I hope when I come to float in the ocean. If you enter the water correctly, you will not sink. As in life, if you enter correctly ... well, there are times to swallow a little water, but until we die, you Ocean is well supported, and your life is well supported as well. "

- "I entered the monastery after publishing my last album in 1993. I am nearing 60 years old and my teacher and friend (the teacher Roshi) was about to turn 90. I thought that it was not much time, perhaps to me either, and I felt it was time to strengthen my union with him, further study his teachings. Then I became a monk. It was not because they were looking for another religion, no, I'm happy with my own religion. The life up there is not a religious life, but work hard and study. "

- "Not looking for a spiritual elevation, but a solution to the pressure of my life, and I was like if it was through religion, philosophy or kitchen. But do not get to understand the Buddhist concept, I get tired trying. "

- "After a certain period, I began to feel that my knowledge had reached a certain point and I had a revelation: I realized that I have no talent for studies of religion. Do not think that I was upset but relieved, relaxed: no longer had to be studied further. "

- "... I have never really known where it came from my depressive state, but it has to do with a move away from myself. Has been the engine, determining the mechanism that has made me take the whole attitude in life: I have lived trying to avoid it, to escape from it, understand it, to handle it. "

- "I've searched everywhere, in Scientology, in Zen, on sex, in drugs, but none of these activities provided the balance that I was looking for. So, until I stopped searching. "

At the end it seems he found the balance in your life. Perhaps it is not just a stop in a quiet way station. If the train again to get going there will always be waiting for passengers to climb.