I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.