I was always laughing in church.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.

All medical procedures require two hands, so in a sense it's like when you play an instrument. That's what they call things that they use in their work: They call them instruments. A lot of people start out majoring in medicine and drop it and change their major to music.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.