Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.