I am a D.J., I am what I play.

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.