Captain Beefheart

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

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

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. ”

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone. ”

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'm interested in playing, not working. ”

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

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. ”

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