"Devo, I think, is great. I love them. They are like Dadaists to me. Everything that they express is a complete reaction against everything that we stood for. But they do it so well, theatrically speaking. And with a great sense of humor. I love it. Now as far as putting on a Devo album? It wouldn’t be something I would do. It’s the visuals that make them fresh and fascinating to me."

"This is the band of the future. I'm going to produce them in Tokyo this winter."

"...when I was in high school, I dressed like a punk rocker and people would scream "Devo!" at me - because Devo infiltrated the mainstream. Out of all the bands who came from the underground and actually made it in the mainstream, Devo is the most subversive and challenging of all. They're just awesome. I love them."

"We’re inspired by reality because the world is so ridiculous and stupid. DE-EVOLUTION IS REAL."

"God made Man, but he used a monkey to do it."

"As the Chinese proverb goes, the nail that sticks out gets pounded. You are especially scrutinized and judged if your success carries any whiff of change or controversy. If you challenge authority in any real manner, your voice in the marketplace is quickly revoked."

"One thing we learned from the hippies was that rebellion was obsolete. Hippies turned into safe little yuppies, and punks turned into safety pin wearing paraphernalia consumers. You can't fight the system head-to-head. It is like, "I fought the law and the law won." They will kick your butt each time."

"We denounce this as impostors playing with fire."

"Being in a band is really great when you're 20. When you're 30, it's kind of 'Spinal Tap,' and when you're 40, it's just pathetic."

"We do give straight answers, but nobody believes them."

"Today's noise is tomorrow's hootenanny."

"Like the Bible, devolution is basically an extended joke. One man's doughnut is another man's death."

"What we seek then, is that transcendent state most fully engendered by Fred Flintstone -- technologically sophisticated cave-man."

"There is no zombie in the closet / There is no thing underneath the bed / There's no alien abduction / The monster's in your head."

"We're all special, everyone of us / We're all beautiful in our own way / We're all a part of a great big wad / And nothin' could be finer."

"You try to make a difference but you're just another man."

"It's a modern life but it's not what you're looking for."

"Maybe the time's come / To use what you got / For some good."

"I have been hurt / I will hurt others / That's what he said / That's what he said."

"Question for all you who should know much better but don't / With your brains and your instincts around you / Why do you still blow it?"

"We're sucking the gooey cellulite from modern music. Reductive synthesis. We do it all for you."

"People accuse us of trying to be glamorous! We don't wear these because we like them. We have to! They're protective gear."

"Alan Myers: Then when you put the king in this position the game is over. Woman: What a dull game."

"It's... Booji Boy!"

"Jerry. Alan. Mark. Bob I. Bob II."

"Released in 1981 in U.S.A."

"There’s no place like home / No place like home / To return to."

"We push against the rest of life / As if we can survive without the world around us / Can’t have a rainbow without the rain / Can’t have a painting without the pain / Can’t have a lover walk out without the love leaving with them."

"Turn the page on the demons in your head."

"But wishin' is for chumps / High hopin' is for fools / They'll hunt you down / and taze you bro / for playin' with the rules."

"One thing's always the same / No matter what they say / There's way too many problems / Way, way too many problems."

"Besides, God isn't dead / He's in your head / Right where he ought to be."

"Subhuman bloodless leaders / Fed on lies and fear / And tv anchor news teams / Trim all we see and hear."

"Like a fish in the water / You don't know where you've been / 'Til you jump out and take a look around / At the big picture."

"You only punch yourself out when you start swinging blind."

"Life must be eaten or at least bitten into to get past the surface."

"Not necessarily beautiful / But mutated."

"Beautiful mutants I can see in the distance / I think they're calling our name."

"Love comes in spurts."

"...Nothing is more dangerous than desire when it's wrong."

"In this land where stability is hard to find / You can rearrange the patterns so unkind."

"Laugh if you want to / Or say you don't care / If you cannot see it / You think it's not there / It doesn't work that way."

"The way that we weren't is what we'll become."

"Remember to do nothing when you don't know what to do."