It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

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.

Success is a result not an action.

Life is a divine adventure.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.

Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.