[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.