Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

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 don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

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