I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it..

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate..

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

Be kind, man - don't be mankind..

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond..

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

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind..

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

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes..

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers..

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

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine….

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

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

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child..

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat..

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone..

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be ….

The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter..

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..

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall..