If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

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

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

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

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.