People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

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

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

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

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.

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.