I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

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.

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

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 thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.

Next to the wound what women make best is the bandage.

It's kind of hard to believe that people love me.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.