People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.