So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

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

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.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.