I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

The rebellious mood of the country during those [60th] years allowed me to plug right back into my old hatreds. I could scream and holler, as I did on the albums, against religion, government, big business - all those assholes and their values. That hatred was very real.

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at the end of the month, you'll notice that the white guys are walking and talking and standing like the black guys do. You'll never see the black guys going, "Oh, golly! We won the big game today, yes sir!" But you'll see guys with red hair named Duffy going, "What's happenin'?"