Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public.

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

I'm not trying to ally myself with the rock stars of the universe.

True happiness is devoid of any illusion.

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

You have to understand, the blood we drink every day to stay alive comes out of a jar in the refrigerator. It is the very definition of gross.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

[At Conventions] they give me all the photos to sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy the Pig is right up there.

There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.