Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.