Captain Beefheart Quotes

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

... the work of lunatics.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George W. Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ...

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.