Captain Beefheart

“I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.”

“I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.”

“I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.”

“An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.”

“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.”

“If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.”

“Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.”

“James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.”

“Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.”

“We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.”

“With my voice and my band, I can do anything.”

“I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.”

“I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.”

“That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.”

“I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.”

“But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.”

“I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.”

“When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.”

“The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.”

“You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.”