Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.

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

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.