You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.

I believe you can joke about anything.

The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot.

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

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.

Sometimes guys'll say to you, 'Have a good one'. I say, 'I already have a good one. Now I'm looking for a longer one'.