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Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

You can't always trust your mother.

High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

My God is rock'n'roll.

Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

I think

I just don't know.

Things always seem to end before they start

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

An eye for an eye is elemental.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

And I feel just like Jesus' son

Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

Electricity comes from other planets.

those were different times.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Take a walk on the wild side.

You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.

Let's do what you fear most
That from which you recoil
But which still makes your eyes moist

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

I can concentrate on my art.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

The heart says what only the heart knows.

I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

If anyone ever had a heart
He wouldn't turn around and break it
If anyone ever played a part
he wouldn't turn around and hate it.

Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

Here's to Mulberry Jane
She made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?

Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

Research, research, research. It means everything.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

The most important thing is work.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Some people are like human tuinals