Todd Rundgren Quotes

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

I'm definitely not as crazy as Fred!

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.