The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.