I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

Its not a war on drugs its a war on personal freedom.

Let me tell you about gays in the military. I dont want any gay people hanging around me while Im killing kids. I just dont want to see it.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.