I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

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

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

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

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