I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
Your commander would never lie to you. That’s the vice president’s job.
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
I love to go on stage and sing.
I’m most comfortable on stage.
I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
I’m not artistic nor am I all that creative.
It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that’s kind of how humans are.
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.
It is just that I don’t want a wife and I don’t want kids.
I got three letters today telling me that I’m god. Why can’t I pay the rent?
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t go to the wrap party. I don’t go to the premiere.
There’s no retirement, there’s just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
It is you who makes me see what I really am.
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.