The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

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.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.