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

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

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

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 got ears, you gotta listen.

I'm interested in playing, not working.