I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Don’t you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

Folk is bare bones music.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

Definitely, it just felt good to get the win.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.