Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.