38 Quotes by Daniel Johnston

There is good news in sight but there are some dark clouds on the horizon,

It is certainly strange but unfortunate for Alaskans because the difference is minute and the oil companies must be ecstatic.

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and he re-sells them for quite a bit more and then he puts the money in my savings. I just draw all the time and he buys and I get a lot money [laughs]. It's great. My dad's my best manager I ever had. If I get richer, I'd like to be able to buy more of the real collectible Beatles things. I just need a little more money to be a higher class collector [laughs].

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.

When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure.

I never met a girl I didn't meet