In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies. Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have.

I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.