People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.