I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

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.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.