Wesley Willis
Wesley Willis
Wesley Williswas an American singer-songwriter and visual artist from Chicago. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition, with songs featuring his bizarre, humorous and often obscene lyrics sung over the auto accompaniment feature on his Technics KN keyboard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth31 May 1963
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I've been playing music for a long time. I play my music to keep busy. I play my music to keep out of trouble. I play my music to be a good person. My music keeps me from doing bad things. It keeps me from hurting other people and going to prison. I play my music to keep my mind off my demons.
I want to be famous and rich. . . . I am famous and rich.
I'm not gonna be warded off the joy music bus.
You're my sweetheart to the max. I love you like Crispy Critters.
I don't want to mess up my songs. If I didn't end my songs with commercials, I wouldn't know what to say.
I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.
Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.
Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.
I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!
Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.
Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.