I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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.
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 and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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.
I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
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 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.
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.