There was a spirit of ex-empire, this thing of 'things can't be done', whereas in America, I thought there was a spirit of 'can be done!', the pioneer thing. 'Go do it, what do you want to do?' 'I want to put babies on spikes.' 'Go, then! Go! What a wonderful idea. It's the American Dream!'

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. And, uh : oh yes. You tear your history down, man! Thirty years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a c…

'Hi! I'm Crazy Eddie! I put babies on spikes. Do you want a rack of babies? We've got babies on racks! Mmm, they taste of chicken!' They do! Babies taste of ch…

Mais, la souris est en dessous la table, le chat est sur la chaise et le singe est : est : le singe est disparu!

And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams.

On jazz: 'Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other coun…

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient …