You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

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

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.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

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.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

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

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

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 think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

I don't do lullabyes.

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

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

I'm interested in playing, not working.

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

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

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

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.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

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.

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

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

The best investment on earth is earth.

If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Marrying Jared was the best decision I've ever made. You realize in life, not that many things matter that much, but your choice of a spouse is everything. We're truly partners - he supports my work and my ambitions. I know that he's always got my back, and I've got his.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

Better to take smart risks and focus on winning because, if you don't, your competition will!