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.

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.

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.

I prefer to stay poor.