A lot of people allow themselves to become dull because they fear pain, but pain is a form of awareness.
A lot of people don't want to be more aware though, and it seems that as time goes on, more and more people don't want to know.
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
And I write a lot. I write an awful lot every day.
And if I go someplace I never return to the same place - it's changed by the time I return.
And the truth is so obvious - it's impossible to be cut off from dirt because gravity keeps us in and of it. You can't escape gravity.
Anyhow, I've got my autographs in a book and I look at 'em occasionally and it reminds me of the people.
Anyhow, when I went on the mental fast I didn't really judge the procedure. I just stayed up and up and up and ate nothing but fruit.
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
I believe in varying degrees of disconnection. I don't believe in insanity.
I can only speak for myself, but I've fought not to let it get pounded out of me.
I didn't mind doing it it, but he turned my voice down so far it was almost corny. I really sang that thing. And it turned it way down. He didn't tell me it was going to be turned down like that, and when he put it on I thought it was humourous. He should have gotten Johnny Rivers.
I don't do lullabyes.
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.
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 don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
I guess the reason I use lyrics is because I'm a singer and the record companies and everybody would think I was ridiculous if I didn't use the English language.
I have been working on getting a form of music everybody could listen to.
I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
I live up at Eureka, among the big trees, and I tell you, those things are really saying something. You gotta work to hear what they're saying.
I met a lot of nice Oriental Americans out there - that's where they sent them during the Second World War. Isn't it awful, them keeping those people out there.
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
I still live way out in the desert - it took me two hours of driving before I even hit pavement to come here.
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
I think nutrition is very important. If you eat bad, you feel bad. If you feel bad, you do bad things.
I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
I think that people cut off their hearing ability and why they do that is something I wonder about a lot.
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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.
I'm a woman freak, I'm all for women definitely.
I'm interested in playing, not working.
I've been put up to be the big bad wolf of rock and roll for a long time. and walt disney gave that wolf capital punishment.
If you love somebody and you're there and they're there then it isn't really an illusion. I'm a romanticist for sure.
It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
It's very difficult for me to drive a car.
It's very selfish, but to play with me you have to be able to forget what you've learned before. But then, the human mind does that automatically.
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 he isn't.
Let Frank Zappa speak for Frank Zappa, and I'll speak for Captain Beefheart.
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.
Mirror Man was released eight months ago, and I didn't even know it was coming out.
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
Music is play. For instance, a child playing in a yard, right? A child playing in a yard doesn't like to be called by his mother. I imagine the child wouldn't even quit playing if it weren't for someone disturbing him. So that's what I mean.
My father's gone. He cut out - died quite a few years ago.
No, I think it's because I've always known I'm an animal.
On the other hand, I really don't believe we re headed for an apocalypse.
Painting, writing - and I've got a movie that's coming out soon.
That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
The way the group is now has been happening for about two years.
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
There was a girl named Pauline Oliveros who did a piece I like. And a lot of good electronic music comes out of Germany, Stockhausen for example.
There's no competition with our music.
Well, I run six miles on an indoor jogging device, which takes me about an hour and 45 minutes.
Well, then I don't think you know who I am if you consider me in the same category as Frank Zappa.
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
Yeah, when I was 3 years old my mother took me to the Tar Pits and she should have had a harness on me. I got away from her and tried to dive into 'em - almost made it too.
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.
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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