If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

... and it's always been a thing with me to feel that all men know the truth, see? ... The truth itself doesn't have a name on it. To me. Each man has to find this for himself, I think. I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be... I'm not interested in trying to say what it will be, I don't know. But I believe that good will only bring good.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.