Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.
From Roy Harper
I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.
I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.
When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
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