For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure.

I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.