Daniel Johnston

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

I prefer to stay poor.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.