I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.