Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this