"I mean, human nature. The idea of the way they’ve treated animals - I can’t believe it. When I was three years old, I was looking at a dictionary, trying to learn the fucking thing, and I came to a page that said, ‘Great auk, extinct.’ It made me sick. And I haven’t cared much for humanity since then. I knew they didn’t mean me any good."
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)

To us, an other worldly artist. To him, we were aliens.
8 months ago