I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.