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Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.

Music is the best.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

Behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?

People like to own things.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Ram it up your poop chute.

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.

I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

While your children are sleeping, your puppy is crappin'.

Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get.

If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.

I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

To me absurdity is the only reality

She use to knock me out until her face broke out.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner

I want a girl that can swallow my pride.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work ...

Am I a boy or a lady, I don't know which?

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

With a tongue like a cow, she could make you go wow.

Wowie zowie, love me do. Wowie zowie, and I'll love you, too.

I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

So many books, so little time.

Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.