If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.