The art comes first or the message doesn’t come at all. The message comes from me. I am a religious person (Roman Catholic). I am, I suppose, in a very, very minor way, something of a mystic and when you read my material, I think it comes through.
“You now have a nation of kids who don’t read. The bulk of information that enters those brains comes from television or records… so control over those sources of information is rather attractive to an authoritarian mentality.”