The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents – because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you’re going to be as smart as God. We can’t have that.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
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.