It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.