I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.