I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.