We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.