I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.