Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

The artist must say it without saying it.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.