What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?