I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.