[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.