Jazz is the music of unemployment.

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.

It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?