Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!

God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

The best part of breaking up... is when you're making up.

I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

To think is not always to see.

Figuring out a way to use humor to deal with important issues I think is very important. Laughter is a great diffuser.

If I don't feel it, I can't play it.

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.

You can choose to follow your heart always.

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.