There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.