"I am the lizard king. I can do anything."

"I'm always a bit suspicious when lyricists call themselves poets,"

"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you."

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."

"Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs."

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."

"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."

"Love cannot save you from your own fate."

"Music inflames temperament."

"How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"

"How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie people claim they want to be free everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"

"I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,"

"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."

"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"Where's your will to be weird?"

"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."

"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors."

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable."

"The time to hesitate is through."

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is."

"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity."

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."

"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself."

"the future's uncertain and the end is always near"

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors."

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."

"I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us."

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."

"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous."

"I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across."

"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."

"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."

"Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach."

"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."

"Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat."