Quotes from Don Van Vliet

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Earth ... God's golf ball.

The earth is God?s golf ball.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

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

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

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.

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.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

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.

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.