Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.