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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and...

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall...

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

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