I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Take a walk on the wild side.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.