She’s cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl’s dead.
Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early ’70s.
I’m not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” is pretty clever.
When you believe in God, you’ve got to believe in the all-powerful God. He’s not just God, He’s the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone’s life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that’s trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
Nurse Rozetta, I won’t let her catch me peering down her sweeter.
I don’t think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there’s a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.
School’s-out-for-summer!!
It just seemed that we always ended up at the Rainbow, to the point where they finally just said, ‘Why don’t you guys go up into this loft, where we’ll kind of protect people from coming around and sitting on the tables.’ And we thought that was a great idea.
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he’s staring at her legs.
Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank – seriously drank.
They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I’ve written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I’d wake up and they’d be gone.
When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we’re always improving and growing.
If it’s total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn’t even have to play.
Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires – Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix – had died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.
If you confine it, you’re confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don’t want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
I read Dad’s books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can’t get caught in here.
Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.