Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.