Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.