I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.