I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language