You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.