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

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

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

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.

The greatest sin is carelessness.