“Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.”

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

So many books, so little time.

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.

My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.