People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.