When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.