July 7: Cancer

"No one heard us, not even ourselves. I found it very hard. I mean, I'm looking at amplifiers thinking the sound is going to come through my eyes instead of ears, but it's like -- I couldn't do any fills because I'm just there just to hold it together somehow, you know. So if I go off for a 'fill' which isn't as loud as all your force on an off-beat it would get lost anyway. And the timing usually went all to cock. And that's why we were bad players. That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other ... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain."

"I move with the times, every time. My fashion changes for the today and does not remain stagnant."

"When a place gets crowded enough to require IDs, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."