You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.