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

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.

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.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.