Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

A pear is a failed apple.

By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album.

The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.