Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.