Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.

More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.