...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.

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.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.