If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.

Make music a service that's easy to consume, and there'll be plenty of money for everyone.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

Look upon yourself only with compassion.

The ultimate crime is not to care.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.