The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively – because without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.
Shut Up and Play your Guitar.
You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Most people don’t bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.
If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.
There isn’t anything weird about my music.
Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I’m much too young and stupid to operate a gun.
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.
Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
There is no hell. There is only France.
To me absurdity is the only reality.
Music is always a commentary on society.
Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that’s my idea of a good time.