. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.