Captain Beefheart

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

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

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

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

“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 tr...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 h...”

“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.”

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

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