Gems from Johnny

I've been trawling back through my notebooks to find a particular conversation of Johnny's.  I knew, when I closed the page, in search of something else, that I might not be able to find it again and I was right.  For two days I have searched and it has eluded me, but I know it's somewhere in the tatty red book from 2010. However, whilst reading, I have re-discovered some wonderful quotes that have lifted my sagging January spirits no end.

On technology:
' I was going to take a picture.  I got my camera going and I thought the batteries had gone - but I had my reading glasses on,' 

On audiences:
'I don't want to speak to the world - I want to speak to my community.'

On recording thoughts late at night:
'I tried writing them down in a book by the bed, but the next morning it looked like a spider had crawled around in ink. So I tried a Dictaphone - and that was like a spider had crawled around in ink.'

On genetics:

Last summer!

'Both my grandfathers were underground (miners) and oddly enough, I am too.'

On Foreign Affairs:
'America always finds out six months too late and bombs the country next door.'

On life:
'When I'm dead, it's immaterial.'

On career:
'I've worked all my life to get into the basement.'