James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

You just have to follow your own heart.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.