Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.