Sometimes I WANT to have a mental BOOK burning that would scour my MIND CLEAN of all the filthy VISIONS literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial IDENTITY and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may CONSTRUCT new values, new INSTITUTIONS and new VISIONS of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

I'm always LOOKING to create new avenues or new visions of MUSIC.

In a lot of ways, the cool THING about modeling is that other people and ARTISTS I LOOK up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was REALLY exciting to be a muse in that way and CARRY out a vision.

I didn't DICTATE sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped CONVERSATION with Neal Cassady, or Cody, TALKING about his EARLY ADVENTURES in L.A.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at WHOSE GATES RISE the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions PERHAPS from earliest childhood.

One of the nice things about books as opposed to TELEVISION and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. PEOPLE REALLY do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different CHARACTERS look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

I have OFTEN had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to BITE me; and MANY other VISIONS.

When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more OFTEN that I was RIGHT and nothing was wrong with me, that I was deserving of EVERYTHING this world has to offer, and that my visions for my future were WORTHY of pursuit.

I thought we had OPPOSITE VISIONS of electronic music. Tangerine DREAM and Kraftwerk had a very ROBOTIC, MECHANICAL approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.

Working with friends isn't EASY - the nature of an artistic PROJECT means it's about TWO strong visions colliding and a bit of MENTAL wrestling.

I WANTED to work with people from the WORLD, with different MINDS and different visions.

Sometimes we'll WALK into a SET, and I'll think, 'Oh, this film doesn't look LIKE this.' You know, 'cause I read the script, and I saw it in my head in some other way. Which is a lot like what happens when they're WRITING a movie that's based on a book - I'm like, 'Ah! He doesn't have a BEARD.' You have these visions in your head about it.

I take a pretty expansive view of CRAFT, which is to say I don't SEE craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and DREAMS; the words that are put down and the words that are AVOIDED.