The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.