“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
