“If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.

Open your mind and let the pictures out

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.

When you stop growing you start dying.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

Self-confidence goes a long way and is very attractive to others.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

In the very beginning, she’s using him in a pretty cynical way.

My work is an act of communication, and it’s important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it.

I don’t like to veer away from the truth because I think that’s what people have fallen in love with about my music.