I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

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.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.