The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.