I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

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.

If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

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

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

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.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.