Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

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.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

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

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

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

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.