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.

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.