Lydia Lunch Quotes

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

If everything was good, maybe I wouldn't have a career. I wouldn't have anything to make fun of.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.