It seemed I’d always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not...

The world is big enough,and the Possibilities are huge , so pack the bag and get lost.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening – all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn’t one big joke.

Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

He stilled my room, for sure.

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness...

Everybody is waiting for cooler weather–and I am just waiting for you–. (Bob Dylan in a letter)

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won’t come againAnd don’t speak too soonFor the wheel’s still in spinAnd there’s no tellin’ whoThat it’s namin’For the loser nowWill be...

It’s a thrill to be on Columbia Records. Columbia has been home to a lot of my favorite artists — like Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, and Bruce Springsteen — and it feels great to be...

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

why be bothered with other people’s set-ups? it only leads to torture.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn’t yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to...

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

A poem is a naked person….Some people say that I am a poet.

I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soundtrack of my life. I moved the dial up and down and Roy Orbison’s voice came...

The finest fury is the most controlled.

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn’t understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the...

On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a sponsor and donor of this soon-to-be-opened institution, while an accompanying leaflet has enticing...

The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted -in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations,...

Last year was kind of a down year for us. We weren’t out there for 200 dates last year, like usual. Don [Herron, the band’s fiddle, pedal-steel and mandolin master] was off playing with Bob...