The only person I really believe in is me.

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

There are all these different areas of specialization. That's it. You have to be a specialist nowadays. There's no other way. I was an artist for a long time, but I was always into being a general practitioner. I did a little of this and a little of that. And nothing got me anywhere. You have to specialize. If you don't specialize, it takes you until you're about fifty years old before anybody notices that you're doing anything at all.