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"I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians."
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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."

"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."

"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."

"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."

"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them."

"First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that."

"I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much."

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays."

"Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town."
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