“One of the things I feel on the part of my audience is that they’re willing to hear it, even if they don’t agree with it. What I do, it’s culture, it’s music, it’s art. I’m not trying to tell anybody to follow my line of thinking.”
“Between the right and left and political jingoisms, the world has evolved to where there is a corporate, multinational world order…even the illusion of democracy is starting to disappear. There’s a planetary ruling-class rich, and everyone else is here to serve them.”
“I think that the policy of genocide that was initiated 500 years ago is still on track. But today it’s called assimilation. Back in the early days, you had the Andrew Jackson train of thought, which was: kill them all. Jefferson’s idea was: surround them, absorb them, and make them disappear. Either way, perspective was genocide. The process is still going around in the process of assimilation, which works through generations, and through generations erases who we are and all traces of our ancestral past.”
“I don’t perceive it as any worse than the poverty of all these years. But it can be like a trick as a way to take us into technological powerlessness as individuals.” – On casinos
“I have no problem with that comparison. If anybody is comparing me in any favorable way, I have no problem.” – On being compared to Lou Reed. ~