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

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.

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

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.