Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.