personal history quotes

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

I was born in New York in 1904.

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.