"I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness."

"The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral."

"For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss."

"Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."