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"Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home I’d rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe and throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make ‘em grow"
"I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture."
"I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that."
"We are buried beneath the weight of information."
"She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet."
"George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved."
"Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop."
"Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago."
"My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult."
"All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning."
"George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him."
"There's no prayer like desire."
"I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities."
"Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead"
"I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue."
"New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations."
"Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church."
"Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold."
"I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train."
"He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle."