I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

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

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.