We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

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

Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was.