When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.