I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.