It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.