Don't eat the yellow snow.

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

You don't dig me, I don't understand what it is, I had my car reupholstered.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.