It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things.

Fame attracts lunatics.