Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.