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.

Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police

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.

To be the best in whatever you’re doing you need to have a master plan”.

I felt so alone on that train... a weird, unnatural kind of alone that bore into me. It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness.

If people don't wish to be eaten then they shouldn't taste so nice

Never will you talk to me like that again.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

If you have a fat brother or sister you might be American.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.